September 04, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Wenjun Zhang is trying to understand how oral bacteria make biofilms, aka plaque, so she can distinguish the good from the bad — and tip the balance to prevent cavities. If Wenjun Zhang has her way, no one will ever have to brush or floss again. Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical…
September 03, 2025
Allon Wagner is an assistant professor of computer science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, an assistant professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, and a member of the Center for Computational Biology. His lab develops data-driven algorithms to analyze single-cell molecular…
August 25, 2025
Two PhD students win a national prize for promoting scientific rigor Teng-Jui (Owen) Lin and Kylee Hillman, two graduate students in Professor Markita Landry‘s Lab at the College of Chemistry, have been named champions of scientific rigor and awarded the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize. The prize, which includes a cash award of $7,500, recognizes early-career scientists…
August 14, 2025
The National Science Foundation has renewed funding for the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM), an NSF Center for Chemical Innovation led by researchers at UC Berkeley. C-GEM tackles a “Holy Grail” problem in the chemical sciences: how to synthesize truly sequence-defined chemical polymers, oligomeric molecules possessing both a pre-determined, diverse sequence, and a…
August 12, 2025
Today, the Pew Charitable Trusts announced that four UC Berkeley researchers will be recognized as 2025 Pew Scholars. The early-career biomedical scientists will receive multi-year research grants and join a rich network of more than 1,000 Pew-funded scientists. Ana Paula Arruda and Cara Brook — an assistant professor of nutritional science and toxicology and an…
August 11, 2025
A UC Berkeley study found that social prairie voles lacking the receptor for oxytocin are slow to form friendships and less aggressive toward unfamiliar peers. This suggests a role for oxytocin in both the “approach” and “avoid” sides of maintaining friendships. A new UC Berkeley study shows that the so-called love hormone, oxytocin, is also…
August 05, 2025
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce that Jennifer A. Doudna is the recipient of the 2026 Priestley Medal. This award is the highest honor bestowed by ACS, and it annually recognizes an individual for distinguished service to chemistry. Doudna receives the award for “outstanding discoveries on ribozyme function, Dicer and double-stranded RNA processing…
July 28, 2025
A planned addition to the campus’s Innovation Zone will expand lab space for the Innovative Genomics Institute and build out the largest innovation hub — Bakar Labs — at any U.S. university. UC Berkeley’s planned Innovation Zone on the west side of campus gained significant momentum as a result of the approval today (July 17)…